Ore-bearing Granite Systems; Petrogenesis and Mineralizing Processes

Geochemistry of highly fractionated I- and S-type granites from the tin-tungsten province of western Tasmania
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Published:January 01, 1990
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W. N. Sawka, M. T. Heizler, R. W. Kistler, B. W. Chappell, 1990. "Geochemistry of highly fractionated I- and S-type granites from the tin-tungsten province of western Tasmania", Ore-bearing Granite Systems; Petrogenesis and Mineralizing Processes, Holly J. Stein, Judith L. Hannah
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The Devonian batholiths of western Tasmania represent a diverse assemblage of highly fractionated intrusions (70 to 77 percent SiO2) that are the products of different source materials. The Housetop batholith exhibits compositional affinities to a fluorine-rich I-type magma. The Meredith batholith also has characteristics indicative of I-type source materials. The Heemskirk batholith is composite, and consists of a volatile (F, B, H2O)–rich S-type granite underlying an I-type granite. The Three Hummock Island, Interview River, Sandy Cape, and Conical Rocks plutons probably have an S-type source and are grouped together as the Sandy Cape Suite. Rapakivi texture...
- absolute age
- accessory minerals
- alkaline earth metals
- Ar/Ar
- Australasia
- Australia
- batholiths
- Carboniferous
- chemical composition
- dates
- Devonian
- fractional crystallization
- geochemistry
- granites
- I-type granites
- igneous rocks
- intrusions
- isochrons
- isotope ratios
- isotopes
- leucogranite
- magmas
- major elements
- metal ores
- metals
- mineral assemblages
- Paleozoic
- plutonic rocks
- plutons
- rare earths
- Rb/Sr
- S-type granites
- saturation
- Sr-87/Sr-86
- stable isotopes
- strontium
- Tasmania Australia
- tin ores
- tungsten ores
- volatiles
- whole rock
- western Tasmania Australia
- Meredith Batholith
- Housetop Batholith
- Heemskirk Batholith
- Sandy Cape Pluton
- Conical Rocks Pluton
- Sandy Cape Suite
- Three Hummock Island
- Interview River Pluton